evacuees; displaced persons; refugees
question (e.g. on a test); problem; problem (e.g. societal, political); question; question (i.e. doubt); public discussion
pursuer; pursuing party; posse
mixed race; mixed parentage
Griffith (Australia); Griffis; Griffiths
(not) anywhere; nowhere; everywhere; anywhere
is that so? (generally rhetorical)
direct; immediate; personal; firsthand
to turn back; to go back; to come back; to return; to retrace one's steps
room; chamber; apartment; flat; stable
medium; average; moderation; middle school; China; volume two (of three); during (a certain time when one did or is doing something)
what; how many; many; a lot of; several; a few
perception; intuition; the sixth sense
right; correct; proper; righteous; just
neighborhood; vicinity; environs; approaching
resistance; opposition; reluctance; repulsion; resistance; drag
potentiality; likelihood; possibility; availability
to support (a theory, claim, etc.); to back up; to substantiate; to prove
once; one time; temporarily; for a moment; one degree; one tone
to leave; to depart; to take one's leave
to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study
to re-think; to think back upon; to change one's mind
to walk in on; to tread upon
suddenly; casually; accidentally; incidentally; unexpectedly; unintentionally
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
to take notice (of); to pay attention (to)
to squat; to crouch down (completely, generally with face looking through knees)
from the place (where); from the fact that ...; caused by the fact that ...; because
(not) so; (not) particularly; (not) very; (not) that much
floating; buoyancy; fishing float; bobber; buoy; lifebuoy
to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)
uncomfortable feeling; feeling out of place; sense of discomfort; malaise; physical unease
to wrench open; to prize open; to pick (lock)
under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.); under (a flag, the sun, etc.); beneath; with (e.g. one blow); on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...); (somebody's) side